About Lean Six Sigma

Lean Six Sigma combines the power of Six Sigma – strategic alignment, customer focus and rigorous analytical tools – with Lean's focus on speed, and delivers breakthrough results.

Six Sigma encompasses the Design, Improvement and management of business processes. Poor process trumps good people, so process excellence enables all employees to consistently deliver superior results. Lean adds powerful tools for identifying and eliminating waste in processes and drastically reducing cycle times. Putting the two together makes a winning combination.

Why Do It?
ROI + Employee Engagement = Competitive Advantage

In todays competitive business environment even the best companies are searching for ways to gain and maintain an advantage. Poor quality costs typical companies 15-25% of revenues and Lean Six Sigma has a proven track record of delivering massive financial results across all business sectors.

Additionally, one of the greatest challenges faced by today's leaders is fully engaging their employees -- even the best strategy will fail without the ability and will to implement it. Lean Six Sigma provides employees line of sight to the strategy, and the tools and incentive to pursue it.

DMAIC
DMAIC stands for Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control.

DMAIC is the recipe or methodology for process improvement, the backbone of Lean Six Sigma and the starting point for most companies beginning the Lean Six Sigma journey. IIL integrates Lean tools into the DMAIC methodology.